NGC 45 in Cetus

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Amazing. That's a seriously small Galaxy - looks more like it's going to get eaten by the foreground stars

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Amazing. That's a seriously small Galaxy - looks more like it's going to get eaten by the foreground stars

Cheers Chris, yeah it's a lot smaller than the popular brighter galaxies usually imaged this time of year (eg NGC 253, 300, 55 and 247 etc) but plenty big enough to still show some nice details and the pairing with the bright star is pretty uncommon.

Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

I wasn't totally happy with the visibility of the HII regions so I enhanced the Ha channel. 105min of Ha isn't enough really, I probably should have collected a fair bit more but at least now the various magenta-red patches are a little more visible scattered across the arms

Same links as before

Mike

[topheart]

Lovely!
I love the bright star juxtaposing the galaxy.

Cheers,
Tim

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by topheart

Lovely!
I love the bright star juxtaposing the galaxy.

Cheers,
Tim

Thanks Tim, yeah, the cool pairing was the main reason I chose it as a target, (another) one to hit with the 20"..?

Mike

[John Hothersall]

Another great image, not familiar with this one. I love the colour pattern on the bright star diff spikes and the two edge on galaxies caught in the spiral arms. Seeing must have been great to get such detail in background galaxies.

John.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Hadn't seen that one actually, cool ...their results are simply the best around huh? Yes, clearly plenty of blue star clusters throughout the arms there too, so when viewed at lower resolution, like in my image , that would definitely translate to fairly blue arms ...dang! we gotta get our gear up at 2200m with sub arc sec seeing year round....if I ever go remote hosting, it will have to be somewhere in Chile!

Mike

Hi Mike,
I like your latest version.
No one can beat CHART32 -
sometimes you'd think it was a Hubble pic.
It's amazing that you've got such an accurate image from Australian skies.
I'm glad to see that you took on a less well known target.
Maybe that's what the amateur astronomers should be doing?
There must be many galaxies out there which would be worth
a better pic than whatever is currently available.
I wish we would have had a dozen Hubbles out there -
not one that will end its life soon.
How many 1000s of galaxies remain unimaged at even the resolutions
& high quality that you have demonstrated?
If you look here - it's great many:
http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc00.htm#ngcic




cheers
Allan

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Another great image, not familiar with this one. I love the colour pattern on the bright star diff spikes and the two edge on galaxies caught in the spiral arms. Seeing must have been great to get such detail in background galaxies.

John.

Cheers John, yeah the seeing was ok, makes a difference imaging at 0.83"/pix compared to 3.5"/pix, I hardly notice variations in the seeing with the wide FSQ-16803 combo.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Mike,
I like your latest version.
No one can beat CHART32 -
sometimes you'd think it was a Hubble pic.
It's amazing that you've got such an accurate image from Australian skies.
I'm glad to see that you took on a less well known target.
Maybe that's what the amateur astronomers should be doing?
There must be many galaxies out there which would be worth
a better pic than whatever is currently available.
I wish we would have had a dozen Hubbles out there -
not one that will end its life soon.
How many 1000s of galaxies remain unimaged at even the resolutions
& high quality that you have demonstrated?
If you look here - it's great many:
http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc00.htm#ngcic
cheers
Allan

Yeah, I like to image different things and I think I will be on galaxies and maybe a PN or two, with the AG12, for a while now Great list that Al

Mike

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

T...I do have a penchant for blue

Yes you do! See attached histogram.

It's a great image though Mike - lovely composition with the bright stars in there. Lots of faint fuzzies too - some nicely resolved.

Psssst .... it looks even better without the blue cast.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Yes you do! See attached histogram.

It's a great image though Mike - lovely composition with the bright stars in there. Lots of faint fuzzies too - some nicely resolved.

Psssst .... it looks even better without the blue cast.

He he thanks Marcus...the usual tests suggest I am not colour blind...but perhaps I am colour biased, I dunno ...when I remove the blue cast the overall image just doesn't look as good..to my eyes at least, on either of the quite different screens I use

I almost never refer to histograms for colour processing either, it's all in my eye...regardless of what that produces ...I have a long history of making my images a little blue biased, I've been called out on it many times over the years.

Mike

[Bart]

Lovely stuff, Mike!


Lots here to like!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Bart

Lovely stuff, Mike!


Lots here to like!

Cheers Bart, looking forward to next New Moon week

Mike